finished the Institute of Forestry; studied at the Sorbonne University; from 1899 - under surveillance of the secret police as a Socialist Revolutionary; from 1900 - the editor and publisher of the newspapers "Iuzhnaia Rossiia" (Southern Russia), which was previously published under the title "Iuzhanin" (Southerner) in Nikolaev and "Syn Otechestva" (The Son of the Fatherland) in Petersburg; from November 1904 till the end of 1905 - the publisher of a daily radical newspaper "Nashi dni" (Our Days) launched instead of the suspended "Syn Otechestva" which was closed for publishing the Workers' Manifesto; 1905 - editor and publisher of the satirical journal "Zhupel" (Bugbear); 1907 - imprisoned for one year as an editor (together with G.I. Shreider); 1908-1913 - emmigrated; 1913 - returned after the amnesty; 1917 -became the commissioner of Kherson province and councilor of the Kherson city Duma; 1919 - appointed commissioner of Nikolaev; 1920 - left the city of Nikolaev with Denikin's army; immigrated to Germany; 1922 - published a collections of stories "V tumane" (In the Fog) in Berlin; 1925 - published a drama "Zapoved' zhizni" (The Commandment of Life); place and date of death unknown.